Most farmworkers are married and/or have children; yet almost six out of ten farmworkers live apart from their immediate family members.
New farmworker documentaries created by 2011 SAF Fellows
Check out two new farmworker documentaries created by 2011 SAF Fellows Robyn Levine and Nandini Kumar.
La Vida Diaria
(Robyn Levine, USA, 2011) 2011 SAF Fellow Robyn Levine documents the experiences of a group of migrant farmworkers who live together and work in the Christmas tree fields in Boone, North Carolina.
Echando la mano: Working with and for Family
(Nandini Kumar, Katie Cox Shrader, and Abigail Bissette, USA, 2011) This documentary explores the theme of family in labor lore: how cell phones connect farmworkers to their loved ones far away, how they distract themselves from loneliness, and how the community in the farmworker camp becomes a sort of family during the long season of work in the fields.
